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HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Jan.  30,   1865.— Laid  on 
the  table  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 

[By  the  Chair.] 


RESOLUTIONS 

Pasted  at  a  Meeting  of  the  Ninth  Virginia  Infantry — January  25,  1865. 


At  a  meeting  of  the  9th  Virginia  Regiment  of  Infantry,  held 
January  25th,  1865,  the  following  preamble  and  resolutions  were 
passed,  with  but  two  dissenting  voices: 

Whereas  it  seems  that  there  are  some  persons  within  the  Confede- 
rate States,  who,  unmindful  of  the  blood  that  has  been  shed,  and 
regardless  of  the  sacrifices  we  have  already  made,  are  willing  to  ac- 
cept peace  upon  the  basis  of  reconstruction  of  the  Union :  and 
whereas,  believing  the  day  of  concession  and  of  compromise  to  be 
past,  we  think  that  peace,  obtained  on  any  such  terms,  would  prove 
but  a  short  truce,  and  would  but  dam  up  the  stream  of  blood,  that 
the  torrent  might  How  the  deeper  in  the  future :  and  whereas  we, 
the  officers  and  men  of  the  9th  Virginia  Regiment  of  Infantry, 
Stewart's  brigade,  Pickett's  division,  mostly  refugees  from  Eastern 
Virginia,  whose  homes  have  been  desolated,  and  loved  ones  oppressed 
and  insulted,  desire  thus  to  express  our  opinion  to  our  friends  at 
home,  and  our  brothers  in  arms: 

1.  Resolved,  that  the  cruel  vindictiveness  and  angry  boasts  of  our 
enemy,  daring  the  pasl  tour  years  of  strife,  have  but  proved  the  just- 
ness of  our  cause,  and  should  nerve  a  brave  people  to  a  more  deter- 
mined resistance. 

2.  Resolved,  that  we,  in  the  beginning  of  this  new  year,  not  un- 
mindful of  our  past  privations  and  dangers,  dropping  a  tear  upon  the 
graves  of  our  fallen  comrades,  remembering  with  the  tenderest  emo- 
tions our  loved  ones  at  home,  weary  of  waiting  our  return,  firmly 
relying  upon  a  just  God,  renew  our  pledges  to  liberty,  and  reconse- 
crate our  best  energies  to  the  achievement  of  independence  for  our 
dear  BOutheiD  land. 

::.    Resolved,  that  we  owe  it  to  ourselves,  to  the  cause  of  liberty, 
and   to  the  memory  of  those  who  have  fallen  in  our  sacred  cause,  to 
st,  to  the  last  extremity,  a  foe,  subjection  to  whom  would  make 
life  itself  a  burden. 


4.  Resolved,  that  we  have  no  new  pledges  to  make,  but  stand 
ready  with  our  lives  to  redeem  those  already  given. 

5.  Resolved,  that  a  copy  of  these  proceedings  be  forwarded  to 
brigade  and  division  head  quarters,  Richmond  and  Petersburg  press, 
Virginia  legislature  and  congress  of  the  Confederate  States. 

THOMAS  H.  WILLIAMS,  Pres. 
J.  S.  GILLIAM,  Jr.,  Set. 


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